First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1505 - An Imminent Battle

Chapter 1505 - An Imminent Battle

The shore of the River of Epochs.

The old man in undyed robes stared intently at the prostrating man in purple. He said, “The Immortal Realm has forty-nine provinces, and I’ve granted you considerable power over the years. So why is it that you’ve only unified three provinces?”

His voice contained a hint of displeasure.

The purple-robed middle-aged man stiffened.

His name was Sun Xiaocheng, the leader of Immortal Cloud Manor. In the modern Immortal Realm, he was unquestionably a top powerhouse.

Yet now, he was obviously ill at ease.

“The top factions of the Immortal Realm all have deities behind them. Like the Gold Province’s Church of the Pure One, the Elephant Province’s Lotus Monastery, and the Transformation Province’s Yang Family...” Sun Xiaocheng listed several such top factions’ names before saying, “Every last one of them has foundations too great to disregard.

“Especially the Church of the Pure One. Its founder, the Blood Firmament Immortal Sovereign, is one of the Immortal Realm’s greatest experts. Their leader, Qi Nie, is attempting to rebuild the Central Immortal Court under his master’s orders...”

But before he could finish, the old man in undyed robes interrupted, “Enough! Stop looking for excuses.”

Sun Xiaocheng knelt there, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

The old man continued, “I contacted you because I have a task for you.”

“Please command me, Divine Venerate!” Sun Xiaocheng said hurriedly.

“I lost one of my Karmic Hooks in the Domain Boundary Battlefield. Someone not yet an immortal acquired it, and if all goes as I expect, he’ll soon proceed to the Immortal Realm. Your job is to capture him!” said the old man in undyed robes, his tone cool and indifferent. “I don’t care how you do it, but I need him alive. And remember this: you are absolutely not to cause a disturbance, nor are you to reveal any of the details of this operation!”

“As you command, Divine Venerate!” Sun Xiaocheng solemnly agreed.

The old man in plain cloth robes took out a talisman, wrapped it in Karmic Thread, and tossed it into the curtain of light like a fishing line.

An unbelievable scene followed.

The talisman actually crossed the curtain of light to appear in the Immortal Realm, right in front of Sun Xiaocheng!

“This talisman contains a secret art and a divine formation. You can use the secret art to sense the presence of the Karmic Hook. As for the divine formation? You can use it to make offerings to me! Once you’ve captured the thief, all you have to do is set up the formation and place him inside. That aside, the talisman contains a portion of my will. If you run into insurmountable peril, crush it, and I’ll lend you a hand!”

“Understood!” Sun Xiaocheng solemnly nodded his assent.

“This matter is of the utmost importance. You cannot afford the slightest negligence.” The old man’s gaze was distant, and his tone was incomparably austere. “Once you’ve succeeded, I’ll reward you with good fortune beyond your wildest dreams. But if you screw this up...”

His eyes glinted with icy light. “I’ll let you experience true divine punishment firsthand!”

Sun Xiaocheng shook from head to toe and said solemnly, “Divine Venerate, please rest assured. I’ll give it my all, even if it costs me my life!”

Bang!

The curtain of light dissipated, and the fishing rod sank into silence once more.

A moment later, he shook his head and thought to himself, The Reincarnator is incomparable to ordinary cultivators. I cannot rest all my hopes on the shoulders of a mere servant.

Here, he hesitated, then took out a blood-red jade talisman.

“Hei Mo,” whispered the old man.

The jade pendant suddenly lit up with crimson light, and a low, raspy voice rang out.

“Martial Uncle Severing Heavens, do you have orders for me?”

“Take a trip to the Immortal Realm and do something for me.”

“Understood.”

......

The First Battleground.

Atop the mountain shrouded in lightning.

Boom!

The Divine Replenishment Furnace rumbled and shook as if intoxicated.

A long time passed before it gradually sank back into stillness.

It had absorbed every last drop of Void Annihilation Immortal Lightning in the pool. The Void Annihilation Immortal Lightning covering the mountain gradually faded and disappeared.

“I only need one blade of Heaven-Adjudicating Grass. The other two are yours,” said Su Yi. “Once the furnace has finished refining the Void Annihilation Immortal Lightning, half of it is yours.”

A’Cai straightforwardly agreed.

Once they’d divvied up the spoils, Su Yi asked, “Right, did you come to the Domain Boundary Battlefield because you wanted to ascend to the Immortal Realm?”

A’Cai shook her head. “I’m here in search of good fortune. It’s just as I said earlier; the Domain Boundary Battlefield is unique. It hides good fortune unattainable in the Human Realm. The Heaven-Adjudicating Grass is just one example.”

Su Yi instantly looked intrigued. “Do you know of any others?”

“I’m still looking,” said A’Cai, clearly a bit frustrated. “The Heaven-Adjudicating Grass cost me far too much time. I plan to continue my search after this.”

Here, she giggled. “Of course, if I really find anything, you’ll naturally get a share, Fellow Daoist.”

Su Yi was stunned, and he was just about to refuse when A’Cai laughed. “Do you remember what I said to you last time? I promised to give you a delightful surprise, but the Heaven-Adjudicating Grass obviously doesn’t count. So don’t be in such a hurry to refuse.”

Su Yi laughed. “Very well. I’m looking forward to it, then.”

He really was quite hungry for A’Cai’s undying power.

After all, this power of the Grand Dao made those who mastered it all but eternal and indestructible. It had unbelievable wondrous applications.

Even his sixth incarnation, Wang Ye, had never once acquired such power, and he regretted this failure.

However, Su Yi knew that this power was uniquely A’Cai’s; it wouldn’t do for him to covet it.

As the two of them conversed, a voice suddenly rang out in the distance.

“Su Yi, I’ve finally found you!”

Her voice spread throughout heaven and earth.

Su Yi looked over and saw a familiar figure. She was dressed in hemp, and she was tall and slender. Her long black hair was tied into a ponytail and held in place with a red string. A bronze mask obscured her face, revealing only her pale purple eyes.

It was the mysterious spearwoman!

“It’s you!” Su Yi was stunned. After all, he’d first encountered the spearwoman back in the Wilds.

Before she left, she said that the Domain Boundary Battlefield would reappear within three years, and that she’d come looking for Su Yi then.

Now, here she was in the First Battleground!

“Is that so surprising? I told you I’d come to get revenge!” The spearwoman wrapped her arms around her impressive chest, her pale purple eyes shining with cold light.

“Fellow Daoist Su, is she your enemy?” A’Cai whispered.

Her beautiful little face was utterly solemn; she could tell that the spearwoman wasn’t someone to provoke lightly.

“I wouldn’t call her that,” laughed Su Yi. “At most, she’s just another one of my ‘defeated generals.’”

“You...” The spearwoman’s eyes widened, and murderous intent billowed around her.

But a moment later, all of her attention was on A’Cai. She froze, then completely set aside all thoughts of making trouble for Su Yi.

“An Undying Immortal Silkworm!? I would never have guessed I’d encounter such a rare Xiantian lifeform in the First Battleground!”

Her intense pale purple gaze made A’Cai thoroughly uncomfortable. She furrowed her brow and said, “Hey! Don’t you know that staring at someone like that is rude?”

The spearwoman laughed, and her gaze heated up. “Little girl, come with me. I guarantee I’ll look after you, and with my help, undergoing metamorphosis, becoming a butterfly, and achieving divinity will be well within your reach!”

She spoke with staunch conviction. She’d obviously set her sights on A’Cai, to the point that she was disregarding Su Yi.

Becoming a butterfly and achieving godhood!

Su Yi sank into thought. If the rumors were true, the day an Undying Silkworm reached adulthood and became a butterfly was the day they achieved divinity!

“I don’t need your help.” A’Cai pursed her soft pink lips.

“It isn’t up to you.” The spearwoman laughed, like a hungry ghost eyeing an unrivaled beauty. She was practically licking her chops.

Su Yi furrowed his brow just watching, and he was completely astonished. His impression of the spearwoman was of a tyrannical, mysterious, cold and aloof expert.

So why did she... suddenly seem so lewd?

Su Yi said flatly, “With me here, you cannot act however you please.”

The spearwoman immediately glanced at him in displeasure. “I’ve yet to settle the score with you, yet here you are, clamoring for a fight. Do you really think I just came here to play around?”

Su Yi laughed dryly. “Rest assured; I never tell jokes.”

The spearwoman thought for a moment, then said, “You’re saying that if I want to take the girl with me, I have to defeat you first?”

“You’re welcome to try it.” Su Yi’s gaze was distant and profound.

The spearwoman said directly, “That works too. So long as you win, I’ll give up on her.”

She was seething with murderous intent, and her pale purple eyes blazed with the will to fight.

“Right, what’s your current cultivation?” The spearwoman suddenly looked Su Yi up and down. “Strange. Not even I can discern your cultivation.... Just what kind of secret technique are you practicing?”

“I’m in the late-stage Dao Integration Realm,” said Su Yi. Instead of explaining, he circulated his cultivation base, and his aura spread outward.

The spearwoman’s pale purple eyes shone with profound, mysterious light. She examined Su Yi closely for a moment, then said, “You really are in the Dao Integration Realm, but your aura is extremely distinctive. It’s different from any Dao Integration cultivator I’ve seen. Truly strange.”

“Are you afraid?” asked Su Yi.

“Hah!” The spearwoman snorted coldly. “Rest assured. I’m here to get revenge, but I disdain using my superior cultivation base to suppress you!”

As she spoke, her Cloud Soaring Realm cultivation base silently shifted, dropping to the late-stage Dao Integration Realm.

When A’Cai saw her control over her cultivation base, she couldn’t help but be inwardly startled. She suddenly realized how terrifying the spearwoman really was.

And the depths of Su Yi’s gaze silently lit up with surging light.

This was his long-dormant will to fight! The thirst for battle only awakened when he encountered a powerful foe!

Ever since he’d restarted his cultivation, the spearwoman was absolutely the strongest opponent of the same cultivation level he’d ever faced.

There was no close second!

When they first fought in the Wilds, he emerged victorious in the end, but the fight left him looking completely wretched and badly wounded.

Now, this woman had come looking for him again. Su Yi wasn’t at all opposed to this. If anything, he was delighted!

It seems that Fellow Daoist Su... is eager to fight that woman. A’Cai keenly detected the changes to Su Yi’s aura and expression, and she couldn’t help but be confused. She couldn’t quite see through his relationship with the spearwoman.

Just what was going on between them? They didn’t really seem like enemies, but they obviously weren’t friends, either. It was truly strange.

Meanwhile, Su Yi and the spearwoman stared each other down from a distance, their eyes ablaze with the will to fight.

A grand battle was about to break out!